While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

But there is, and always is, a path forward. The United States declared its independence on July 4, 1776, and yet it did not ...

Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to social justice. For 45 years, she fought for women’s suffrage with little obvious ...

Lecturer Colleen Plimpton talks about how plants were used by colonists in early America and during the Revolutionary War as medicines ... The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and ...

After this election, widely claimed to be the most important in U. S. history, upon which the fate of democracy itself rests, ...

His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the works, is slated to come out in 2025. While Burns ...

The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier General of the New Jersey State Militia during the ...

It is, after all, a place like no other in the country’s founding — where George Washington led a ragtag army to unlikely ...

During the Revolutionary War, numerous forts were constructed throughout ... The fort did not last long under American control. On November 16, 1776, the British under Sir William Howe captured ...

Emma Best wanted to learn more about the Revolutionary War, a topic she hadn’t studied yet in school. In what turned out to ...

Modern American politics rarely inspires anyone to sing, but in 1972, one musical film found the inspiration with the nations founding document. The film is called “1776” and it was adapted from the ...

For most Americans of the time, the Revolutionary War was a struggle for freedom and ... New Jersey in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1782. Not only did he serve on over one hundred ...